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How many brands are in your bag? – GolfWRXers discuss

Published

4 years ago

May 6, 2020

In our forums, our members have been discussing the number of different brands currently in their bag. WRXer ‘tangojay’ kicks off the thread with his setup:

“Driver: Cobra F-8 (just switched from Callaway XR-16). 3 & 5 woods: Callaway XR-16. 4 Hybrid: Cleveland Mashie. 5-SW : PING G-700. Lob Wedge: Cleveland CG-15. Putter: Byron Experimental. Ball: Kirkland 3-Piece. Bag: Bag-Boy”

And our members have been sharing the different brands that have made it into their bag in our forums.

Here are a few posts from the thread, but make sure to check out the entire discussion and have your say at the link below.

dbdors: “5, Callaway, TM, Tour Edge, Cleveland and Titleist (SC). But putters vary between the SC, Evnroll or PXG.”
laztjc4: “Up to 6. Mizuno driver, Cobra 3wood, Callaway hybrid and lob wedge, Hogan irons, Ping gap and sand wedge, Titleist SC putter.”
ChipNRun: “It’s a battle between Callaway and Tour Edge (see FWs for how tight it is). My putter is mostly Ping for the past 15 years, be it an early Ping Pal, a 2011 version of the B60 or my Sigma G Tyne. Only break was a two-year jaunt with a Slotline SL-583F. Cobra has held down the hybrid slots for several years. And I must confess, the Cobra FlyZ Driver and 3-4W felt awfully good then I tried them.”
shortgame85: “I started with an all Callaway setup. Then Titleist, then mixed. Today, I carry mostly Ping, two Callaway fairway woods, Titleist wedge and putter.”
belephant: “6. PING driver, Titleist hybrids, Mizuno irons, Callaway wedges, Bettinardi putter, Bridgestone ball.”
AUTIGER07: “It’s 3 or 4 depending on the putter I go with. 3 – Titleist / Mizuno / Nike. If I go with the Black Lab that day, it’s 4.”
AllSkillz15: “8. Driver- Callaway Epic Flash. 5 Wood- Cobra F9. 4 hybrid- Ping G410. 5 hybrid- Taylormade M4. 5i-PW- Mizuno HMB. 52*- Titleist SM7. 60*- Taylormade HT BF. 64*- Cleveland RTX-4. Putter- Directed Force 2.1. Bag- Sun Mountain.”

Entire Thread: “How many brands are in your bag?”

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Callaway launches Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond Max driver

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3 hours ago

May 21, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

Give me a Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond driver but make it Max. Callaway engineers have taken the tour staple triple diamond head and boosted its size from 450 to 460cc’s. “By doing that we’ve created a more forgiving head while still keeping the same great shape that’s beloved on tour,” said Callaway’s advanced R&D manager Nick Yontz. The driver offers more spin than Triple Diamond standard — and thus more workability and forgiveness.

In contrast to the standard Triple Diamond, which features 14 and two-gram weights. The Ai Smoke Triple Diamond Max is equipped with 10-gram and four-gram interchangeable weights, which contributes to greater overall stability. According to Callaway, the driver plays more neutral than the neutral-to-fade-bias Triple Diamond.

Comparison of the Triple Diamond and Triple Diamond Max faces.

Discussing testing on tour, Nick Yontz, advanced R&D manager, said:

“We first brought this head out for Tour testing in November last year. Players would step up and we had it matched up to their gamer driver specs. They would swing, and we saw consistently good ball flights – very stable. It was the word ‘stable’ that continued to be used by players.”

“They would continue to split the fairway and what that caused them to do was to start swinging faster. They had this excitement that, ‘This thing doesn’t go offline. I can keep swinging harder and harder and it maintains that straight flight’”

“We were seeing players. that would have small gains in ball speed from just the driver head alone, but then the swing speed would increase the more and more swings they made. By the end of it, they really saw meaningful gains in ball speed and distance.”

As a refresher on the Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke driver family — which now includes Paradym Ai Smoke Max, Paradym Ai Smoke Max D, Paradym Smoke Max Fast, Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond, and Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond Max — check out our launch piece.

Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond Max: Pricing, specs, availability

Price: $599.99

Loft options: 9, 10.5 degrees

Stock shaft: Project X Denali Blue

At retail: June 7

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Photos from the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge

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3 hours ago

May 21, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

GolfWRX is live this week at Colonial Country Club for the Charles Schwab Challenge.

Custom Camerons and some “super” new grips from SuperStroke are filling our galleries early in the week as well as WITBs — including the always interesting “Cashmere Keith” Mitchell.

Check out links to our photos below, which we’ll continue to update throughout the week.

And while you’re making your way through our photos, be sure to check out last year’s incredible gallery of prototype and personal Ben Hogan golf clubs.

General Albums

WITB Albums

Pullout Albums

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Coolest thing for sale in the GolfWRX Classifieds (5/21/24): New Ping i210 4-UW irons

Published

6 hours ago

May 21, 2024

Gianni Magliocco

At GolfWRX, we are a community of like-minded individuals that all experience and express our enjoyment of the game in many ways.

It’s that sense of community that drives day-to-day interactions in the forums on topics that range from best driver to what marker you use to mark your ball. It even allows us to share another thing we all love – buying and selling equipment.

Currently, in our GolfWRX buy/sell/trade (BST) forum, there is a listing for a set of New Ping I210 4-UW irons.

From the seller: (@jblough99): “New Ping I210 4-UW with AWT 2.0 stiff shafts. Standard length, standard loft, black dot lie. Golf Pride Tour Velvet grips standard size. All matching serial numbers. There is a rub in the finish on the back of the 6 iron and a few spots in the hydropearl finish on the other iron faces (see pics) unfortunately the shop I got them from didn’t wrap each head individually for shipping. These clubs are new unhit, most still have the protective stickers on the numbers on the soles. $1025 OBRO full clubs. $975 OBRO heads only.”

To check out the full listing in our BST forum, head through the link: New Ping I210 4-UW irons

This is the most impressive current listing from the GolfWRX BST, and if you are curious about the rules to participate in the BST Forum you can check them out here: GolfWRX BST Rules

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